A GENERATIONAL GUN VIOLENCE REDUCTION PLAN - MAYOR LATOYA CANTRELL CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AUGUST 2019
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A GENERATIONAL GUN
VIOLENCE REDUCTION PLAN
Mayor LaToya Cantrell
City of New Orleans
MAYOR’S GUN VIOLENCE REDUCTION TASK FORCE
August 2019
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Letter from Mayor Cantrell Fellow residents of the City of New Orleans, When I took office on May 7, 2018, I knew that we faced some tough challenges ahead, and that the only way we could meet them was if we went forward together. One of the most pressing challenges we face as a city is the high number of murders, which has topped 145 every year since 1972. With nearly 90 percent of murder victims being killed by firearms, our homicide problem is a gun violence problem. To combat this issue, I commissioned the Gun Violence Reduction Task Force, composed of a broad range of community stakeholders, and charged them with developing a comprehensive set of recommendations for helping my administration deal with this epidemic in our city. I wanted a plan that would make a difference – not just in the short term with temporary successes, but one that would outlast my tenure, save lives for many years to come and lead to our city truly being safer. It is important to remember that this plan is not a cure-all; gun violence in New Orleans will not be eradicated overnight. Determining exactly what works at scale will take years of iteration, trial and error, data analysis and community feedback. That being said, if we remain focused on making long-term, strategic investments in public health interventions that data shows are effective; if we improve our homicide clearance rate; and if we disrupt violence through intentional and sustained community engagement efforts, I know our city’s next 50 years will involve far less gun violence than our last 50 years. I would like to extend my sincerest thanks to the Task Force members who gave their energy, time, passion, and insight to the planning process. I also want to extend my gratitude to my staff, the consultants, community leaders, advocates, and local and national experts who played a role in devising this plan. Yours for a safer New Orleans, LaToya Cantrell Mayor of the City of New Orleans 2 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan
Contents
Letter from Mayor Cantrell ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Executive Summary ......................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Vision and Goals .............................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Vision ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 5
Goals ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 5
Defining the Challenge: What Gun Violence Looks Like in New Orleans ........................................................................................ 5
Why a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Reduction? .......................................................................................................... 7
1. Gun Violence Prevention Collective (GVPC) ................................................................................................................................ 8
How the GVPC Will Work............................................................................................................................................................. 8
GVPC’s Guiding Principals ............................................................................................................................................................ 9
The GVPC - 2019 Summer Success Pilot .................................................................................................................................... 10
2. Solving More Homicide Cases.................................................................................................................................................... 11
1. Constructing the New Orleans Crime Lab ............................................................................................................................. 11
2. Holistic Case Management .................................................................................................................................................... 11
3. Homicide Section Operations Manual ................................................................................................................................... 12
4. Mentorship ............................................................................................................................................................................ 12
5. Forensic Training.................................................................................................................................................................... 13
6. Collaborative Review of Cases Cleared by Exception ............................................................................................................ 13
7. Continue and Expand Chaplain Program ............................................................................................................................... 14
3. Cure Violence New Orleans ...................................................................................................................................................... 15
Acknowledgements: The Gun Violence Reduction Task Force...................................................................................................... 17
Task Force Membership and Staff Support ............................................................................................................................... 17
City and Other Government Agencies ....................................................................................................................................... 17
Consultants, Service Providers and Other Subject Matter Experts ........................................................................................... 17
References ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
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Executive Summary
I envision a New Orleans where all residents are critical role in removing dangerous
safe from gun violence and empowered to reach individuals from our communities, deterring
their full potential. There have been at least 145 would-be shooters and increasing
murders in New Orleans every year for the last 50 community trust in the criminal justice
years. Gun violence has ravaged our communities system.
and families for generations, and we can no longer
just respond to its aftermath; we must strategically 3. Community Engagement: Cure Violence
work to prevent it. My administration’s generational New Orleans (Cure Violence) is the local arm
gun violence reduction strategy is grounded in a of an international violence intervention
public health approach that relies on data and program based out of Chicago. The
collaborative engagement across the public, program aims to prevent shootings by
nonprofit and academic sectors. identifying situations where the likelihood of
There are three core components of our approach: violence is high and engaging to de-
escalate the situations before violence
1. The Gun Violence Prevention Collective:
occurs. The current program is rooted in
Specifically, we believe gun violence will
Ceasefire New Orleans, with a similar usage
decrease over time by creating an entity
of culturally competent messengers as
called the Gun Violence Prevention
violence interrupters and case workers who
impact at-risk individuals in their
neighborhoods and in hospital settings.
“ I envision a New Orleans where
all residents are safe from gun
violence and empowered to
Sustainably reducing gun violence will be a
long and hard road; the number of annual
murders in New Orleans will not reverse
overnight. Progress will require improving
and investing in programs that data shows
reach their full potential.” are working, sunsetting those that are not,
and designing and rigorously evaluating new
interventions that have the potential to
reduce gun violence. We believe this plan will
Collective (GVPC). The GVPC will be tasked
with funding and developing public health ensure that New Orleans is a city where all residents
interventions, ensuring that programming is are safe from gun violence and empowered to
effectively delivered, and measuring the reach their full potential.
outcomes. Data-driven and informed by
national best practices, the GVPC will offer
individuals likely to be involved in gun
violence comprehensive preventative
services.
2. Preventing Homicides by Solving
Homicide Cases: Through solving more
homicide cases, law enforcement can play a
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Vision and Goals
Vision
The Cantrell Administration envisions a New Orleans where all residents are safe from gun violence and
empowered to reach their full potential.
Goals
This plan aims to meaningfully reduce the number of gun-related murders in the city over the next 50 years.
Defining the Challenge: What Gun Violence Looks Like in
New Orleans
In 2017, the most recent year for which national more than seven times the national average.3 New
statistics are available, there were 157 murders in Orleans has ranked in the top 5 nationally in
New Orleans (a rate of 39.5 per 100,000 residents), murder rate every year since 1987, a streak that is
with 136 of them resulting from gun violence.1, 2 largely driven by gun violence. Figure 1 below
The national average rate for that same year was shows how New Orleans compares to other major
5.3 per 100,000 residents, making New Orleans’ rate cities in the U.S. when it comes to murders.
Figure 1: Top 10 Murder Rates in 2017 by City (Per 100,000 Residents)
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# of Murders per 100,000 Residents
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
St. Louis Baltimore Detroit New Kansas City Cleveland Memphis Newark Chicago Cincinnati National
Orleans Average
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program
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At 39.5 murders per 100,000 residents, New Orleans Figure 2 below shows the number of murders for
was fourth in the nation in 2017. While this the period from 2006 to 2018. The data shows that
represents an improvement over previous periods the total number ranges from 146 to 207 during
when New Orleans had the highest rate in the this time. In order to reduce these numbers, a new
country, there still remains a lot to be done. approach is needed.
Figure 2: Number of Murders in New Orleans by Year
250
200
Total # of Murders
150
100
50
0
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Year
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program
“
At 39.5 murders per 100,000 residents, New Orleans
was fourth in the nation in 2017. While this represents
an improvement over previous periods when New
Orleans had the highest rate in the country, there still
remains a lot to be done.”
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Why a Public Health Approach to Gun Violence Reduction?
Public health encompasses any threat to a person’s However, my administration’s approach will not be
life and wellbeing that can be prevented, contained successful without community trust, engagement
or treated. For far too long, gun violence has been and transparency. As such, we are committing to
a leading cause of injury and death in our local the following:
community, but it can be prevented through
1. Data collected pursuant to this plan will
focused interventions for individuals who need
NOT be shared with the police and will
them most. This approach is not new; the U.S.
NEVER be used for predictive policing.
successfully eradicated polio and dramatically
decreased injury rates from car accidents through 2. The City will hold annual meetings in all five
dedicated partnerships at every level of the Council districts organized through the
community working towards a common goal. Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood
Engagement to:
Science tells us that gun violence concentrates in
• Educate the public about this plan and
some communities or social networks.4 This plan
its specific elements;
will interrupt the transmission of gun violence by
• Offer an avenue for meaningful
focusing on:
community input;
Upstream factors in a person’s life that can • Share progress reports on high-level
be influenced to prevent their involvement successes/challenges related to the
in gun violence; implementation of the plan; and
• Provide an opportunity for individuals
Delivering appropriate interventions for a
to voice their concerns regarding the
person’s age and circumstances;
plan
Evaluating whether interventions are having
3. Annually, there will be a formal opportunity
the intended outcome; and
for community partners to have input on
Scaling successful prevention strategies. programming and interventions;
This public health approach to gun violence 4. There will be an annual report produced for
reduction does not replace, nor is it at odds with the public that will detail the GVPC’s
law enforcement. Its focus is simply different: not interventions and evaluate their
deterrence, but prevention by addressing the root effectiveness while also detailing the City’s
causes of gun violence. Communities around the progress toward attaining the long-term
country and world integrate public health into vision laid out in the plan.
public policy challenges, and with respect to gun
violence prevention, New Orleans will be no
different.
“ This public health approach to gun violence reduction does not
replace, nor is it at odds with law enforcement. Its focus is
simply different: not deterrence, but prevention by addressing
the root causes of gun violence.”
77 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan1. Gun Violence Prevention Collective (GVPC)
Congressional funding for gun violence research function as a consortium of academics from New
stopped in 1996.5 Since, there has been almost no Orleans and other institutions across the country,
research on the root causes of gun violence or and, in keeping with our public health approach,
interventions that prevent it.6 City agencies, will be led by City Hall.
nonprofits and community organizations in New
The GVPC will have three core functions:
Orleans offer services that address some of the
social determinants of
health, but these efforts are
“
not coordinated,
systematically evaluated for
. . . my administration will create the Gun
their effectiveness, or based Violence Prevention Collective (GVPC) to
on long-term gun violence
reduction research. coordinate, fund, and evaluate gun violence
Therefore, the causes of
reduction interventions and their outcomes.”
periodic reductions or
increases in gun violence
are difficult to understand
1. Coordinate the Efforts of City Agencies
and explain. To tackle this problem, my
and Nonprofit Service Providers: City
administration will create the Gun Violence
agencies and nonprofits provide services
Prevention Collective (GVPC) to coordinate, fund,
that, if better coordinated, could have an
and evaluate gun violence reduction interventions
even greater positive impact in our
and their outcomes.
communities. The GVPC will provide this
coordination, reduce duplication of efforts
and improve the overall effectiveness of
How the GVPC Will Work programming by directing it to individuals
One of New Orleans’ greatest strengths is its who need it most.
concentration of institutions of higher learning.
The city’s seven universities are an untapped 2. Fund Interventions and Partnerships:
resource that can position New Orleans as a Through various City agencies and funding
premier research hub for measuring, studying, and streams, the City spends millions of dollars
combating gun-related violence. The GVPC will on programming and social services. The
8 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction PlanGVPC will identify existing City funding community found that nearly 85% of all
sources and strategically align them with victims of fatal and non-fatal gunshot
key stakeholders in order to ensure that injuries could be located in a network
resources are being allocated to provide comprised of 763 connected individuals.8
interventions to our city’s youth and adults Gun violence in New Orleans is no different,
who are most at risk of being involved in and the GVPC will focus on coordinating
gun violence. services so that resources are deployed to
those who are most at risk.
3. Rigorously Evaluate the
Outcomes: Beyond determining which Proof Before Scale: Cities across the
individuals are most at-risk of being country have struggled to develop and
impacted by gun violence, the GVPC will deliver public health interventions that have
coordinate local and national academics been proven to sustainably reduce gun
who will study whether specific violence. Because municipalities are only
interventions reduced gun violence and recently starting to look at the viability of
prevented other negative life outcomes. public health strategies to address gun
Further, a longer-term goal is to violence, there is no playbook or set of clear
demonstrate that investing in specific, strategies that are guaranteed
to reduce gun violence over the
long term. As my
“
administration develops and
Investments made at a citywide level will delivers targeted interventions
to individuals in New Orleans,
only occur once we are satisfied that the we will start with small pilots
interventions we are investing in will before expanding to citywide
implementation of strategies in
work.” order to ensure we are
investing in proven
interventions. This approach will
not only allow for the pilot
proven interventions reduces the societal projects to be rigorously measured, but it
costs associated with gun violence (i.e. will also allow for finite resources to be
incarceration costs, court costs, medical strategically and responsibly deployed.
costs, etc.). Investments made at a citywide level will
only occur once we are satisfied that the
interventions we are investing in will work.
GVPC’s Guiding Principals
Focus: Research shows that gun violence is
incredibly concentrated in American cities
with only a small fraction of a city’s
population involved in the majority of
violence.7 For example, 70% of all victims of
non-fatal gunshot injuries in Chicago could
be located in a social network comprised of
less than 5% of the city’s population.
Similarly, a study of a high-crime Boston
9 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan Making Better Use of Existing Resources: partners, postsecondary institutions and City
A review of City programming reveals that agencies must be strong, collaborative and
the City of New Orleans has resources that mutually beneficial; GVPC will coordinate
can be strategically redeployed to offer these relationships.
services to individuals who are at
Measuring, Adapting, and Improving: The
heightened risk of being involved in gun
GVPC will rely on university and academic
violence. By reimagining how City resources
partners to measure the outcomes of
are used and strategically investing them in
interventions and determine their
expert, local nonprofits that can grow their
effectiveness based on rigorous data
impact with additional funding, we are
analysis. Insights gleaned from this analysis
confident that more effective programming
must be used to inform future interventions
and programmatic investments.
The GVPC - 2019 Summer Success
Pilot
The Mayor’s Summer Success Pilot is an example of
the type of programming the GVPC will coordinate,
fund and evaluate in the future. Research in other
cities has shown that summer jobs programs that
provide minimum wage summer jobs to at-risk
youth reduced arrests for violent crimes,
incarceration and premature deaths.9 Through a
partnership with the Office of Youth and Families
and JOB1, the Gun Violence Reduction Task Force
earmarked 100 summer jobs for youth ages 16-21
who had been arrested three or more times in the
last eighteen months and as such were at greater
risk of being the victims/perpetrators of gun
will reach individuals for whom it would do violence.
the most good. Youth were referred to the program through a
Partnerships: New Orleans is fortunate to range of key stakeholders that included Orleans
have a robust nonprofit sector that plays a Parish Juvenile Court, Louisiana Center for
key role in providing critical social services Children’s Rights (LCCR), Welcoming Project and
to many of our community members. Orleans Parish School Board’s (OPSB) Office of
Additionally, as mentioned earlier, New Student Support & Attendance. Though senior
Orleans has a wealth of academic officials from my administration are still evaluating
experience, as the City has seven the Summer Success pilot data, we do know that
postsecondary institutions that can lend only 4% of the program’s participants were
support to helping reduce gun violence in rearrested during the summer. We will look
New Orleans once and for all. To be forward to analyzing whether the program had
successful, partnerships between nonprofit additional positive impacts on participants.
10 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan2. Solving More Homicide Cases
The U.S. Department of Justice notes, “The chance analysis functions under one roof in our parish and
of being caught is a vastly more effective deterrent streamline the forensic capabilities of the New
than even draconian punishment.”10 Beyond Orleans Police Department.
deterrence, solving homicide cases quickly is also
Timeline: The Crime Lab should be
key to preventing future homicides. In 2017, the
completed by 2022.
most recent year for which national figures on
homicide clearance rates are available, the City of
New Orleans’ homicide clearance rate was 50%, 2. Holistic Case Management -
which was lower than the national average of NOPD will create a Homicide Investigation Process
61.6%.11 However, improvements in training, & Procedure Team (HIPP) for each murder case.
operations and collaborative case management can This will ensure fully integrated communication
increase homicide clearance rates to 55% annually. between the officer who initially arrived on the
My administration will increase the New Orleans murder scene and other officers and detectives who
Police Department’s (NOPD) homicide clearance subsequently work on a specific case. This team-
rate by using the following seven strategies: based approach will optimize information-sharing
opportunities while consolidating the responsibility
for solving homicide cases with a collaborative
1. Constructing the New Orleans investigative body. For every homicide
Crime Lab - While ballistics samples, drug investigation, a HIPP team will consist of:
identification confirmations and other scientific • Homicide Commander
processes can currently be done in Orleans Parish,
• Homicide Sergeant(s)
DNA processing is analyzed at the Louisiana State
Police Crime Lab (LSPCL) in Baton Rouge and gun • Homicide Detective(s)
powder residue is analyzed in St. Tammany Parish. • Street Gang Unit Member(s)
The construction of the new NOPD Crime
Laboratory will centralize all of these key crime • Intelligence Unit Member(s)
11 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan• Major Case Narcotics 3. Demonstrate transparency by working
collectively
• Crime Lab Lieutenant
4. Give the community a way to engage in the
• Lieutenant(s) or Sergeant(s) from Districts 1-8
process through the Community Liaison
(as needed)
5. Identify homicide trends, gaps and any
• Detectives from Districts 1-8 (as needed)
deficiencies within the investigation process.
• Representative from the District Attorney's
Timeline: HIPP teams will begin regularly
Office meeting by January 2020.
• Tactical Intelligence Gathering and
3. Homicide Section
Operations Manual - NOPD
“ An updated operations manual will enable a
detective at any point in their career to
immediately understand each and every
will create a comprehensive Homicide
Section Operations Manual that calls
for goals that go beyond clearance
rates and include specific best practice
step that should happen from the beginning requirements for each homicide
investigation. While a homicide section
to end of a homicide investigation.” operations manual currently exists, it
does not lay out in step-by-step detail
how a homicide case should be
Enforcement Response (T.I.G.E.R.) team investigated.
member (for shootings - as needed)
An updated operations manual will enable a
• Community Liaison detective at any point in their career to immediately
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) - understand each and every step that should
Homicide Liaison happen from the beginning to end of a homicide
investigation. Adherence to the operations manual
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and
will be used to track key performance indicators
Explosives (ATF) Agent/Representative
and measure progress towards set department
• Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) goals.
Agent/Representative
Timeline: The operations manual will be
completed by July 2020
A HIPP team will meet weekly to ensure critical
.
collaboration and information sharing among the
aforementioned members of the homicide 4. Mentorship - NOPD will create a
investigation process. Specifically, the HIPP team structured mentorship program for all newly
will meet to: assigned homicide investigators. Currently, new
homicide detectives follow a veteran detective for
1. Share information on all active homicide approximately two weeks before being assigned
cases and related non-fatal shootings; their own homicide cases to investigate. Starting
2. Ensure that all possible avenues for immediately, all new homicide detectives will
identifying the responsible offender(s) are participate in a minimum of six weeks of homicide
pursued; training, followed by weeks of shadowing a veteran
detective. During the initial six-week training
12 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Planperiod, each new detective will be given a case to Timeline: Forensic training for all homicide and
investigate alongside a trained homicide detective, district detectives will be established by January
who can offer real-time guidance, support and 2020.
feedback.
To prepare newer detectives for eventual
promotion to the Homicide Section, a district
detective from each of the eight police districts will
investigate a minimum of one homicide per year
alongside a senior homicide detective, as well as
attend annual homicide trainings that are
recommended by the Louisiana Peace Officers
Standards and Training Council (POST).
Timeline: The NOPD’s new homicide
mentorship program began July 2019.
5. Forensic Training – NOPD will provide
regular and mandatory forensic training to all
homicide division and district detectives to ensure
an understanding of the types of evidence that are
subject to forensic analysis, the types of
information that forensic analysis can provide, and
best practices in the collection and preservation of
forensic evidence. This training should allow for a
more integrated work process among investigators,
crime scene technicians and forensic scientists. At
present, detectives are only given a short briefing 6. Collaborative Review of Cases
on forensics during their week-long detective Cleared by Exception – Homicide cases
training. The department will standardize best
can be cleared either by warrant (a warrant is issued
practices while increasing the efficiency and
for a suspected perpetrator’s arrest); by arrest (a
effectiveness of getting all detectives up to speed.
suspected perpetrator is apprehended);
or by exception (a homicide was
deemed justified or the suspect died
“
Starting immediately, all new homicide before charges were brought forward).
Under my administration, before a case
detectives will participate in a is deemed cleared by exception, it must
go through a thorough review by the
minimum of six weeks of homicide HIPP team and then be presented to the
training, followed by weeks of District Attorney for final review.
Timeline: New cleared by exception
shadowing a veteran detective.” procedures will be established and
implemented by January 2020.
13 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan7. Continue and Expand Chaplain will continue to support the work of chaplains who
offer counseling on crime scenes, and we will look
Program – NOPD employs trained chaplains to expand the number of trained members of the
who offer counseling to victims, families and faith-based community who can be a part of
community members on the scene of a violent delivering that service in a volunteer capacity.
crime or murder. Chaplains not only have the
Timeline: The expansion of the volunteer
ability to comfort those in distress, their counsel
part of the chaplain program will begin in
could prevent retaliation or increase a community
January 2020.
member’s willingness to cooperate with the
investigation. Moving forward, my administration
“ Chaplains not only have the ability to
comfort those in distress, their counsel
could prevent retaliation or increase a
community member’s willingness to
cooperate with the investigation.”
14 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction Plan3. Cure Violence New Orleans
Cure Violence New Orleans (Cure Violence) is a escalate situations before violence occurs. Building
community-based intervention that interrupts upon Ceasefire New Orleans, this intervention uses
conflicts before they turn violent. Cure Violence culturally competent messengers as violence
interrupters and case workers who provide support
and interventions to vulnerable individuals in their
neighborhoods and in hospital settings.
The Cure Violence program under my
administration will focus on:
Connecting groups of individuals at high
risk of gun violence to services and
resources in order to assist them with
making the decision to change their lives
and communities. This approach relies
heavily on interrupters (adults who
previously participated in violent/criminal
activities and are thus “credible messengers”
on the street) and case managers;
Mobilizing the larger community to present
and reinforce social norms to resolve
conflicts peacefully and thus reduce
shootings and killings;
Facilitating mediation sessions with young
people and adults who were referred to
New Orleans is the local arm of an international Cure Violence by community members and
violence intervention program based out of partners in order to resolve disputes
Chicago, IL, that reduces shootings by identifying peacefully, before gun violence occurs; and
situations where the likelihood of violence is high
and engages high-risk individuals in order to de-
“ Cure Violence New Orleans … reduces shootings by
identifying situations where the likelihood of violence is high
and engaging high risk individuals in order to de-escalate
situations before violence occurs.”
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Plan Responding immediately to shootings of Workforce training providers/businesses:
individuals 25 years old and younger at the Cure Violence will connect with workforce
hospital in order to diffuse tensions and development partners and local businesses
prevent retaliation by friends and family to provide career opportunities for
members and to provide support and participants
resources to victims when they have a great
Peer support groups: Cure Violence will
willingness to change their behaviors.
facilitate peer support groups for
Cure Violence will also work with community participants to regularly discuss conflict
partners to insert violence reduction programming resolution, life skills, peer mentoring,
into their existing curricula and trainings. Key problem solving and long-term issues and
community partners include the following: concerns
Schools: Cure Violence will work with Service providers: Cure Violence will connect
schools throughout the City to identify family members of those affected by
opportunities for Cure Violence staff to violence (or its threat) to social, legal, faith-
discuss the impacts of gun violence, based, educational and health services
violence prevention and conflict resolution
Mentoring organizations: Cure Violence will
skills
work closely with partners who work with
Healthcare providers: Cure Violence will youth and adults engaged with the justice
collaborate with New Orleans Health system to ensure there is a continuum of
Department programs, partner agencies, mentoring and supplemental supports
hospital emergency rooms and trauma units provided to individuals who are at risk of
to provide support and resources for ongoing exposure to violence
clients/patients identified as needing
additional physical or mental health services
“ Cure Violence will also work with
community partners to insert violence
reduction programming into their
existing curricula and trainings.”
16 A Generational Gun Violence Reduction PlanAcknowledgements: The Gun Violence Reduction Task Force
The Public Safety Committee of Mayor Cantrell’s
Transition Team recommended that she establish The Task Force received critical support from the
the Mayor’s Gun Violence Reduction Task Force following individuals:
(Task Force), which she did through executive order Dr. R. Erich Caulfield - Task Force Meeting
as one of her first acts as Mayor. The purpose of the Facilitator and Research Coordinator;
Task Force was to present a data-backed plan to Founder and President of The Caulfield
measurably and sustainably reduce gun violence in Consulting Group
New Orleans over the next 50 years. Composed of Dr. Neil Kleiman - Public Administration
experts in policy, service provision and community Program, Tulane School of Professional
engagement, the Task Force focused on developing Advancement
quantifiable strategies to address gun violence Rayne Pestello - Special Assistant to Mayor
reduction in the City of New Orleans that included a LaToya Cantrell
wide array of perspectives, community voices and
expertise. This report is the product of the These recommendations would not have been
recommendations of this group. developed without the insight, advice, and
dedication of the following groups and individuals:
Task Force Membership and Staff City and Other Government
Support Agencies
The membership of the Task Force consisted of the
City of New Orleans Health Department
following:
(NOHD)
Jeff Asher - Crime Data Analyst and Public
City of New Orleans Police Department
Safety Consultant for New Orleans City
(NOPD)
Council
Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice
Dr. Jennifer Avegno - Director of the City of
Coordination (OCJC)
New Orleans Health Department
Joshua Cox - Director of Strategic Initiatives
to Mayor LaToya Cantrell Consultants, Service Providers and
Flozell Daniels - Executive Director of Other Subject Matter Experts
Foundation for Louisiana Dr. Jonathan M.V. Davis
Tamara Jackson - Executive Director of Dr. Jennifer L. Doleac
Silence is Violence Dr. Sara Heller
Melissa Sawyer - Co-founder and Executive Dr. Judd B. Kessler
Director of Youth Empowerment Project Dr. Andrew V. Papachristos
(YEP) Charles West
Nathalie Simon - Special Counsel to the Young people engaged with Youth
CEO & President of Laitram, LLC Empowerment Project (YEP)
Skipper Bond & Jordan Friedman - Bond
Moroch
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9. “Stopping A Bullet With A Summer Job,” J-PAL Policy Briefcase, March 2018
10. https://nij.gov/five-things/pages/deterrence.aspx
11. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program
12. Plan Design and Layout Credit: The graphic design and layout of this Plan was based upon prior work
produced by Spears Group:
https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/a41e72e5/files/uploaded/ForwardTogetherTransitionPlan.pdf
13. Photo Credit: Cover - Nate Hart, Available at: www.natehartstudios.com
14. Photo Credit: Pg. 8 - SkylineScenes.com
15. Photo Credit: Pg. 11 - Slate.com
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